#growth

Since November, 2017, we have hosted the First Fridays Fort Wayne leadership development/networking forum almost every month (we take July/August off). At each of our events, we have brought in dynamic, local leaders from Fort Wayne and NE Indiana. Your feedback and support has been very positive to all of this. We’ve been exposed to great leaders, great organizations and great ideas:

Entrepreneurship – Nate Reusser & Jeff Hoffman

Innovation – Karl LaPan

Coaching & our Leadership mindset – Jordan Langs & Dr. Matt Lucas

Financial Wellness – Don Cates

Thriving – Brenda Gerber Vicent

Business Success – Wayne Robison

Leadership Under Fire – Matt Konkler

Leadership Legacies – Marlin Stutzman

Finding Your Purpose – Barry Schrock

Leadership Capacity – Donovan Coley

Communicating Like a Pro – Heather Herron

There were more. And much more is coming! But is this all there is to it? We just attend a forum, listen, and then leave?

In my opinion, there IS more. Indulge me as we learn something from a Greek grammatical tense – present perfect.

What is that?! Present perfect simply means “an ongoing result of a completed action.” In other words, we hear one of the lessons above (the completed action) but then we realize the results of what we’ve heard by putting it into practice (our ongoing result).

Let me suggest some ideas that you can employ to make sure you are getting to most (the ongoing result) from your First Fridays Fort Wayne experience:

Take notes. Write down something new you’ve just heard during a presentation.

Re-read your notes. At some point after the forum, review your notes. Jot down other impressions or follow-ups that come to you.

Share your thoughts. Share what you have learned with someone else. When you write something down, review it, and then verbally share it with someone else, you are embedding that information into your mind giving yourself a better chance at creating your “ongoing result.”

Watch the YouTube presentation again. In Season 2, we have begun to provide the presentations on our YouTube channel (First Fridays Fort Wayne). Listening to a presentation again allows us to “catch” something we may have missed the first time.